The Trump administration is working on reforming the H-1B foreign workers visa programme which will be part of a skills- and merit-based legal immigration system, the White House said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Larry Kudlow, who is the chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump, in an interaction with reporters agreed that H-1B attracts talented professionals and companies currently are having difficulties in hiring people on H-1B visas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe president has laid this out. We need legal immigration. We need skills-based, merit-based immigration. Those are just a few of the issues. That would be terrific. We can\u2019t seem to get it through Congress. But skills-based, and merit-based and not a family chain-based, I think they will be very useful,\u201d Kudlow said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re looking at it. It\u2019s a work in progress,\u201d he said. Changes in H-1B visas, he said, will be part of a larger reform package.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thrust of that is merit-, skills-based, which is going to be very significant change. We should\u2019ve done it years ago. The president is absolutely right ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cH-1Bs and lots of other classifications of visas, we are looking at all of that stuff,\u201d Kudlow said.<\/p>\n
However, he did not clarify if this is for H-1B visas\u2019 lottery or diversity visas. Trump in the past has called for doing away with the lottery for diversity visas. Of late the US Citizenship and Immigration Services is proposing to make changes in the lottery system for H-1B visas.<\/p>\n
Kudlow said the changes in the H-1B visas does not mean an increase in its intake. Currently the US Congress has mandated 65,000 H-1B visas per annum and an additional 20,000 to those who have completed higher education from US in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d he said when asked if he is proposing an increase in H-1B visas. \u201cI\u2019m saying I don\u2019t want to predict. I\u2019m just saying we\u2019re looking at it. It\u2019s a work in progress and if we could start getting a serious conversation on immigration reform with the Congress, then we\u2019ll say,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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